A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. Junior is a beautiful boy, with big brown eyes, a delicate frame, and…

In this Puerto Rican coming-of-age story, Carmin's dream of moving to the city with her mother vanishes when she instead moves to the US with her new husband. Carmin moves to Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto…

Divorced and living with her teenage daughter, Lu (Valeria Bertuccelli) asks her close friend Ana (Elena Anaya) to house-sit while she goes away with her new fiancee. Ana spends her days lazing by the pool, afflicted by a deep loneliness.…

A documentary on the current Spanish fiscal crisis and the 15M movement, which influenced popular protests around the world, including the USA's own Occupy Wall Street.
On May 15th, 2011, tens of thousands of citizens occupied streets and squares in…

In the convulsive Mexican post-revolutionary times of a complex and divided country, the ideas of Lazaro Cardenas paved the way towards social transformation. Radical, practical and courageous, Cardenas and his socialist dream molded the future of Mexico.

A pitch-perfect political comedy that explores the creation of a political persona that is all form and no content. THE CANDIDATE tells the story of Martin, the son of a wealthy businessman, who starts prepping his candidacy for office. In…

Roberto is a gruff, anti-social loner who lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the slightest of customer foibles.
After a chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese…

Alba is eleven years old. One afternoon, her mother is admitted in the hospital and she has to move to live with Igor, a father she barely knows. Igor's attempts to get closer to Alba, friendships with school girls and…

Set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule, THE COMPANION narrates the unlikely friendship between a boxing champion and a conflictive patient.
After failing a doping test, Horacio Romero has no other…

In this gritty drama, a group of forensic anthropologists dig up the corpses of nine people who disappeared without a trace 20 years ago during a violent political conflict. The only thing that can lead to the identity of the…

A delightful life-changing journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San Jose, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from. A perspective of a middle-class family…

Through her diary entries, eight-year-old Nieve reveals intimate details of a turbulent family life, which create an authentic portrait of the social and political unrest in Cuba under the rule of Castro. A celebration of freedom and a confrontation with…

Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of Guarani Kaiowa genocide: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowa against the powerful
The archival historical images, new footage,…

Teresa is a successful astrophysicist who lives with her girlfriend, Daniela, in the Canary Islands. After years of self-exile, Teresa returns to Puerto Rico to invite her family to her wedding. But her family is a conservative clan from a…

In this touching drama, fisherman Atilio travels with his granddaughter Lara to Buenos Aires. His great desire is to have a grandson to transmit the Guarani culture. When he discovers that Lara's mother, Helena, is pregnant, he decides to go…

Set in Bogota, Colombia, THIS TIME TOMORROW is an intimate portrait of a family's everyday life before and after a tragic incident that forces them to confront an uncertain future.
Nominated for a Golden Lion award at the Locarno International…

Fatimetu is born to a Sahrawi family in a Saharan refugee camp in Algeria and later sent to live with foster parents in Spain. After the death of her mother, she returns to the camp. She has been absent for…

Perla is obsessed with her two daughters, and she pins them against each other in the hopes of having a beauty queen to honor the family name.
She teaches her girls from a young age the rules to becoming beauty…

An intimate tale of a young runaway in search of his disappeared mother, THE KID WHO LIES functions as a metaphor for those still suffering from the 1999 mudslide tragedy, a natural disaster that claimed more than 10,000 victims in…

Maria lives with her three school-age children and 80-year-old father, Agustin. It's clearly a struggle for her to make ends meet and to juggle all of her commitments. Agustin has periods of lucidity, but his mental deterioration is such that…